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Today
media has become the greater mean for
information, discussion, policy making and
social awareness. The role of media has made it
the Fourth Pillar of constitution. The great
deeds of media has made it so powerful that
everybody wants to get attached to it. Nowadays,
whenever people see a Channel Van, they rush
there knowing that their face may be broadcast
on TV 24 hours a day. This great effect has
attracted even politicians. Now the channels are
also divided on political lines. Therefore, some
channels represent one event on one political
line while the other paints it in a different
way. For example, take a case of mosque
demolition in Gujarat during anti-encroachment
drive. One channel, NDTV, was reporting it as
unmatched commitment of the VADODARA MUNICIPAL
CORPORATION whereas another channel STAR NEWS
was painting it as a communal step. Obviously,
the reason may have been only one, but different
channels were presenting it in different ways.
The same thing has happened with Karan Thapar
and Nitish Kumar. If you want to see dark
patches, you can see that in rising sun too.
Nitish Kumar has come as a singular hope for the
ruined state of Bihar. Instead of congratulating
him for such a great victory over the demons and
asking him about the development plans initiated
by him, Karan has wasted time in asking those
issues which would continue to be there unless
the basic problems are resolved.
For example, can a political party abolish the
private armies like Ranvir Sena and MCC by force
without stopping the unemployed youths from
joining it? The only solution is to give jobs to
the young blood to earn their breads so that
they come to their homes, so tired that they get
no time to think about RS or MCC. Big cities
like Mumbai, Kolkata etc. are more peaceful
because of those opportunities which attract
young people to be engaged in developmental
works rather than to think about their caste or
religion.
But the basic issue is that the personalities
like Karan see themselves as politicians rather
than media persons.
One more important point is to be remembered
that, any public figure invited on crosstalk
programmes is given a list of issues on which
discussion is be concentrated. I cannot
understand why Nitishji accepted that list which
still paints Bihar as a jungle. Maybe the fear
of one channel going totally against him was so
threatening that he had to accept and answer
those questions.
Anyway, Karan questions cannot shake the
newly-risen confidence of us (Biharis) because
"WE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE".
Ek Taraf Laloo Hai... Doosri Taraf Nitish Kumar.
The choice is obvious.
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Another example of media biasing is
"JAYA TV" works blindly for
Jayalalitha whereas "SUN TV" is for
Tamil rival Karunanidhi.
The politicians don't bother about
interview preparations, as they know
actual voters cannot afford cable
TVs. To win the election, the caste
based rallies, reservations,
creation of a new district,
installation of statues of the
community leaders, renaming of a
city or stadium bring sufficient
fuel.
The good news we hear about Bihar is
because of private participations
like Abhayanands' Super 30, Mittal's
interest, Prakash Jha and Satrughan
Sinha's proposals etc.
From the government side, we are
still to hear news about control on
crimes. - Tarakeswar Dubey - June
2, 2006 |
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